#UK: The poisonous language in Parliament. Simon Constable, Occitanie.
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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#UK: The poisonous language in Parliament. Simon Constable, Occitanie.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lee-anderson-leaves-the-door-open-for-a-return-to-the-conservative-party-as-he-tells-the-reaction-it-s-up-to-rishi-what-happens-next/ar-BB1j3ZsG
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:05.0 | Simon Constable is my guide not only on the south of France where his daffodils are weeks ahead of mine and where he enjoys the bounty of nature all around |
| 0:17.1 | him. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the farm country, France, the Penn country, beautiful tractors, very well kept farms, |
| 0:23.2 | generous beyond default. |
| 0:26.2 | So what we're looking at is Paradise, but we come to the United Kingdom and there's |
| 0:30.0 | enmity, there's some unacceptable behavior going on for weeks. |
| 0:36.2 | There is Parliament divided between the Tories in a massive majority and labor, and yet everybody |
| 0:42.3 | assuming now all the newspapers of assuming that labor is coming in at the next general election. So let us begin with |
| 0:54.8 | what Simon can help me understand. Right now the very popular and successful |
| 1:00.4 | mayor of London, Sadeie Khan, has been in some fashion defamed or mistreated or spoken |
| 1:11.6 | poorly of by a member of the Conservative Party named Lee Anderson. |
| 1:16.0 | What Lee Anderson said is less important than how the debate is turning out |
| 1:21.0 | because it has to do with religion, identity, Sadiq Khan is a Muslim. |
| 1:28.4 | And he comes from the empire. |
| 1:30.6 | And many empire Muslims are members of Parliament, |
| 1:34.0 | they're vital members of the English society, |
| 1:36.0 | they're around the world. |
| 1:38.0 | And Lee Anderson spoke poorly of having connection to Islam, and that is turned into what in Britain is called a |
| 1:46.1 | row I measure this however because at the same time labor has been struggling |
| 1:52.0 | for years and now most recently for weeks to |
| 1:56.0 | shed its weakness which is anti-Semitic behavior and remarks by members of labor. |
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